Healthcare Sciences Support Worker - Sample reception

Lancashire Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Lancashire; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

Lancashire Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting for a Biomedical Scientist support role within Blood Sciences. The post involves specimen reception, processing samples from hospital and GP sources, and preparing requests for analysis while following standard procedures.

You will work as part of a team, managing workloads to meet turnaround times and provide timely information to wards and departments.

Qualifications

• Specimen reception processing samples received from Hospitals and GPs.
• Prepare samples and requests for analysis and carry out basic laboratory duties.

Responsibilities

• Check documentation and assess suitability of samples.
• Input patient details into Laboratory Information System and resolve discrepancies with staff.
• Prepare urgent samples for analysis and prioritise based on clinical need.
• Respond to general service and patient result enquiries in person and by telephone.
• Replenish stocks of consumables and reagents in Blood Sciences.
• Load samples onto automated equipment when required.

Job description

Are you driven, passionate individual looking to join an innovative an fast paced team in Pathology? This this could be the role for you!

Working as part of a great team supporting Health and Care Professions Council Registered Biomedical Scientists. You will be working in specimen reception processing samples received from the Hospitals and General Practitioners, preparing patient samples and requests for analysis, and carrying out basic laboratory duties. In sample processing, MLA's must work to deadlines to assist in achieving defined analysis turnaround times to provide an effective clinical service to wards departments and GP surgeries and a fast response service to the emergency departments.

Specimen reception is an area which can be very busy and requires precise working, under time pressures. This requires a high level of tolerance to repetitive work. The need to maintain high levels of accuracy and attention to detail throughout prolonged periods of concentration are required. This role requires working at Blackburn and Burnley Hospital sites.

Post holder requires to participate in various shifts arranged over 24 hours including core days, weekends, nights, lates and Bank Holidays., Check documentation and assess suitability of samples.

To provide the first point of contact for Blood Sciences Department for other Trust staff.

Using agreed procedures as defined in Standard Operating Procedures, to prepare samples, for analysis and distribution to sections of the department. Including numbering samples and forms, centrifugation of samples.

Assessment of centrifuged samples for suitability for analysis.

Prioritisation of samples for analysis.

Accurate input of patient details into the Laboratory Information System. Resolving issues of incorrect patient details by contact with medical staff on wards, clinics, and accessing external databases of patient information.

Preparation of urgent samples for analysis, including demographic input into Laboratory Information system.

Responding to general service and patient result enquiries in person and by telephone.

Retrieval of authorised results and offering basic technical advice to other Trust staff.

Replenishment of stocks of consumables and reagents within Blood Sciences from Laboratory stores areas.

Preparation of basic reagents as defined in Standard Operating Procedures

Preparation of specimen containers for distribution

General housekeeping duties

When required, loading of samples onto automated complex analytical equipment, and some manual preparations requiring a higher level of manual skills.

We have 10,000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.

Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.

You’ll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you’d never have done. You’ll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.

You’ll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.